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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 19, 2025· Updated Nov 3, 2025

staging: fbtft: fix potential memory leak in fbtft_framebuffer_alloc()

CVE-2025-38612

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

staging: fbtft: fix potential memory leak in fbtft_framebuffer_alloc()

In the error paths after fb_info structure is successfully allocated, the memory allocated in fb_deferred_io_init() for info->pagerefs is not freed. Fix that by adding the cleanup function on the error path.

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